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The COATS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 15,265 2185 0.006 57
United States (1880 census) 6,343 959 0.013 127
Change since 1880 +8922 -1226 -0.007 -70
Other Countries
Australia 269 5749 0.002 16
United Kingdom 792 6319 0.002 17
Top States for COATS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,814 1412 0.009 87
California 1,280 2545 0.004 38
North Carolina 968 1321 0.012 120
Florida 732 2902 0.005 46
Alabama 722 1068 0.016 162
Top States for COATS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 605 776 0.018 175
Mississippi 493 939 0.017 173
Alabama 722 1068 0.016 162
Arkansas 352 1041 0.013 132
North Carolina 968 1321 0.012 120

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called COATS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called COATS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called COATS in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a COATS by picking someone at random in Oklahoma than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of COATS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the COATS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the COATS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of COATS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 316 2.07
Mixed Race 246 1.61
Native American/Alaskan 171 1.12
Asian/Pacific 60 0.39
White (Caucasian) 11,520 75.47
Black/African American 2,951 19.33

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the COATS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of COATS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of COATS.

Similar names to COATS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COATS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for COATS

The following words are slight variants of COATS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.